Sometimes when works are translated elsewhere, major changes are made to it, from the scripts to editing the footage. The usual reason is to make it more accessible to the audience for the localization, but avoiding ValuesDissonance is also a common reason, as is not offending local MoralGuardians. Another reason is that syndication rules in the U.S. require 65 episodes (until perhaps recently), and that is rare in other countries' shows save for LongRunners, so the best solution was cutting and pasting more than one series together to sell them as one series. And of course, sometimes things are just cut to make more room for commercials.

'''Common methods include:'''* Altering the scripts when dubbing.* Editing scenes, often to the point of removing entire episodes.* [[ImportationExpansion Filming new footage with local actors.]]* [[DubNameChange Changing a character's name for a more local one.]]* [[ShesAManInJapan Switching a character's gender for various cultural reasons.]]

Although edits are not always as devastating as many fans make them out to be, a CutAndPasteTranslation will frequently impose extensive AdaptationDecay and [[{{Bowdlerise}} Bowdlerization]] on a story. At its worst, the entire original script will simply be discarded and a completely new script created almost out of whole cloth. NeverSayDie is a staple, along with LullDestruction. One of the biggest reasons of why the SubbingVersusDubbing debate is still raging.

Often fans consider the show to be cheapened by this. See {{Macekre}} for more on the opinion on cut-and-pasted anime. On the other hand, some people use such dubs as a GatewaySeries, and the virulent fan reaction against the dubs may puzzle those not familiar with the original version, or even perhaps those that watched the dubs first.

The practice is rarer these days, but still around. Often it's just reduced to script changes, since heavy editing would increase the cost significantly (again, it just had to be done for syndication).

If the importers actually add ''new'' material to something when they import it, it's ImportationExpansion.

Compare {{Woolseyism}} (changes are made for things that actually won't translate, and the changes are simply the most pragmatic), GagDub (script changes based on RuleOfFunny), BlindIdiotTranslation (where translations don't intend to make changes from the original work, but are just grossly incompetent), DifficultyByRegion, DolledUpInstallment.----!!Examples

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]* Carl Macek's most famous effort was the three-way hybridization that turned the unrelated series ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'', ''Anime/SuperDimensionCavalrySouthernCross'' and ''Anime/GenesisClimberMospeada'' into ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'' while throwing out almost all of latter two programs' original scripts. While massive changes to the stories of the three series make the adaptation unpopular with many anime fans, the show was a legitimate commercial success, and created a foothold for Japanese animation in the U.S., along with a minor pop-culture phenomenon of its own.** It has to be granted that outside of some LullDestruction perhaps, ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'' was barely changed in any significant manner. Roy Focker's name was spelled Roy Fokker instead (to clarify that his name is a ShoutOut to Anthony Fokker). Even many changed names were only had minor alterations, at least in orthography if not pronunciation; Misa Hayase became "Lisa Hayes", for example. Little censorship was done; mostly removal of some nude scenes, in fact, ''{{Robotech}}'' actually has a [[KillEmAll higher body count]] than the original ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'', albeit these are offscreen. There were only two truly major edits, the first being changing the nature of "protoculture" to tie in with the other two shows -- which does cause some confusion when trying to make a jump from ''Robotech'' to ''Macross''. The other one, of course, is fate of the SDF-1 and TheUnseen (and in Macross, unmentioned until Flashback 2012) SDF-2 -- in Japan the SDF-1 survive and SDF-2 is repurposed as the Megaroad-1, which kicks off the new era of colonization and the rest of the franchise. In ''Robotech'', both are destroyed, thus bifurcating ''Robotech'' from ''Macross'' forever (barring a whole mess of [[{{Retcon}} retconning]]). A change that remains controversial however is the addition of an extremely verbose {{narrator}} who feels like he was originally written so that blind people can enjoy the show too, explaining nearly everything clearly happening on screen in annoying detail.** Like with Dragon Quest anime and {{Cinar}}'s dub of Wizard of Oz, all the credits for Robotech go to Harmony Gold and its localization team. The only Japanese names you see in the credits are Tatsunoko Production Co. Limited, Kenji Yoshida and Ippei Kuri.*** It has to be further noted that the use of ''Southern Cross'' as the second saga of ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'' actually ''increased'' knowledge of that animated series in Japan. As it turns out, ''Southern Cross'' was canned before it could be truly finished and the dub of ''Robotech'' into Japanese made the audience remember the series. (Yeah, Japan got a dubbed Robotech, which was an Americanized anime. [[RecursiveImport This happens a lot, oddly enough]].)** Macek then took ''Anime/MegaZone23'', edited in some ''Robotech'' footage, wrote his own script, and called the resulting mutant ''Robotech: The Movie''. ''This'' one was so bad, even his distributor couldn't get it into theaters as well as thanks to all the violence it features that scared children to tears.*** The original plot to the movie was going to be vastly different, but that plot had to be changed when the creators of ''Macross'' demanded it be changed so it couldn't remotely interfere with the then-new movie ''[[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross Do You Remember Love]]''. Also, the ''Southern Cross'' footage was shoehorned in at the behest of distributor Canon Films, who didn't feel the movie had enough action. Ironically…** Then there was ''Clash of the Bionoids''. This was a version of the aforementioned ''Do You Remember Love'' with an English dub made by Toho (which is much like [[HongKongDub their dubs of their Godzilla movies]]), which subsequently had 23 minutes cut out by its American licensor Celebrity Home Entertainment. The cuts were mainly because of violence (since it was marketed under CHE's "Just For Kids" label); however, for some reason they also cut out the scene at the end that lets the audience know that Hikaru survived. (Carl Macek had nothing to do with this one.)** Macek also merged ''Anime/CaptainHarlock'' and ''Anime/QueenMillennia'' to create the rarely seen ''Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years''.** Macek rewrote the script for ''Anime/{{Windaria}}'', which he retitled ''Once Upon A Time''; he trimmed its 102-minute running time to 95 minutes, switched scenes around, gave all of the characters Western names, and provided narration which, most {{egregious}}ly of all, [[spoiler:replaced the original's DownerEnding with something more hopeful]].** One notable '''aversion''' by Macek: the dub of ''Anime/MeikyuuMonogatari'''s "The Running Man" as shown on [=MTV's=] ''LiquidTelevision'' was well-regarded. (Watch it [[http://liquidtelevision.com/video/the-running-man/ here.]])* ''{{Voltron}}'' was created from two unrelated CombiningMecha series, ''Anime/GoLion'' and ''Dairugger XV''. However, while the plot changes were considerable, the interference between the two combined stories was minimal, and each occurred ''almost'' in its own continuity.** More notable was the censoring of the death of Sven, which was turned into merely being badly injured and being shipped to a hospital planet. This heavily clashes with the imagery of his death scene, where he's being cradled by Lance, and his sword falls over as he "passes out." The end result, however, was more an inspired/lucky bit of a {{Woolseyism}}: in the original there was such a [[HesJustHiding backlash against Sven's death]] that they introduced [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute his identical twin brother]] who the dub just pretended was actually Sven.* The fairly straightforward Streamline dub of ''Anime/{{Lensman}}'' could be considered an ironic inversion since the anime itself was a {{Macekre}} of its original source material.* The company behind ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'', Creator/WorldEventsProductions, then brought over ''Anime/SeiJuushiBismarck'', changed some things around, [[NeverSayDie refused to say die again]] and released it on American television as ''Anime/SaberRiderAndTheStarSheriffs''... where it once again blew away the Japanese release in ratings and did well in other parts of the world. WEP gained a reputation for taking failures, making them kid-friendly (which sometimes takes away some of the vital spark of the show but still retains the core of what made it good), and then making it a huge success. The company no longer actively licenses, however.* ''Anime/MazingerZ'' infamously got this sort of treatment after ''Voltron'' proved successful, and got it from people who didn't care a whit about maintaining the show's integrity. Needless to say, there's a reason few people love ''Tranzor Z'' these days, and Creator/GoNagai was frustrated enough with the failure that it took over a decade for any other Dynamic Productions show to reach America.* Lots of changes were made to the Creator/DiC and Creator/{{Cloverway}} dubs of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' to [[CulturalTranslation make it more palatable for American audiences]], including:** The Sailor Senshi's names changed from Japanese to American (in the U.S. and Latin American dubs, the main heroine is "Serena Tsukino"; oddly enough, Sailor Saturn escaped this treatment, though she didn't get much screen time anyway),** QuirkyMinibossSquad member Zoisite [[ShesAManInJapan being changed from a flamboyant homosexual male into a full-blown woman (albeit one with a flat chest)]].** Sailors Uranus and Neptune being portrayed as "[[KissingCousins cousins]]" instead of "[[HideYourLesbians more than just friends]]." Infamously, [[DubText this change didn't work]].** The entire ending of the first series being cut down into one episode so [[NeverSayDie nobody would be shown dying]] (and changing the Sailor Scouts' deaths to "being captured by the Negaverse" and removing Serena's death from her HeroicSacrifice and her dying wish for her and her friends to live like normal girls again. ** It's nigh-on impossible to list everything here because the changes were so numerous and oftentimes completely unexplainable. However, what [=DiC=] did pales in comparison to what WesternAnimation/{{Toon Makers|SailorMoon}} was ''planning'' to do if they got the rights. They were going to make their own American version with original animation and live-action segments. There exists [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Hge38AkFg footage]] of a promo being displayed by someone who worked on it.** For a thorough analysis of everything that was changed on Sailor Moon, try [[http://www.smuncensored.com this site]] for seasons 1, 3, 4, and the movies, and [[http://www.puto.me/~rattleman/smcuts/series.html this site]] for season 2.*** Speaking of the Mexican dub, a similar case happened with ''Anime/SailorMoon''. They translated all of the original unedited seasons (including the BeachEpisode, and minus the ClipShow preview episode), using the American names from the first two seasons. Because at that time the other three seasons weren't yet translated to English, they used the original Japanese names for the new characters for the rest of the series, resulting in a mix of US names and Japanese names in one single dub. That didn't stop the series from [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff being highly successful in Latin America]], however, thanks to a faithful translation and quality voice acting.* Most shows dubbed by [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids Entertainment]], including ''Anime/YuGiOh'' and ''ShamanKing'', and most notoriously ''Manga/OnePiece''. ''UltimateMuscle'' mostly averted this, and ''Anime/KirbyOfTheStars'' and eight years of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' also got off lightly. Alfred Kahn, former CEO and Chairman of 4Kids, is [[http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/humor/the_wisdom_of_alfred_kahn.html quoted]] in Animation World Network saying, [[http://www.awn.com/articles/2003-tv-wrap-what-s-store-2004/page/3%2C1 "By the time we localize the programs, kids don't even know they're from Japan any more."]]** ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' had music removed or altered, violence and sexuality removed or toned down, and entire episodes and plot-lines being rewritten or removed. Characters' personalities were altered in an attempt to make them more relatable to American children. [[TropesAreNotBad Very few of these changes were actually rejected by fans of the show]] ([[IgnoranceIsBliss although most are unaware to begin with]]), [[NoExceptYes but]] they ''did'' help establish the anime's SnarkBait reputation in the West (both with mainstream adult audiences and, now, fans of the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' games).*** Kasumi (Misty in the dub) is very flirty and promiscuous in the original version. She often introduces herself to other characters as "Sekai no Bishoujo", the world's hottest girl, and uses the [[JapaneseHonorifics -chan and -sama honorifics]] to address herself according to her mood. Kasumi even refers to her pokémon as her "steadies" and asked God why such a "pure maiden is cursed with this beauty".*** Takeshi (Brock) was also toned down in the dub. In the original, he was not above asking girls if they were 18, or stating that he would "enjoy" them when they turned eighteen. This makes other characters getting mad at his flirting a bit more understandable in certain instances.*** Shigeru (Gary) became a JerkAss in the dub, so much so that characters like Takeshi and Kasumi who respected and were impressed by him in the original are rewritten to say they hate his guts and call him despicable ''despite never even meeting him before''. He casually throws around insults like "loser" and "smell you later", and was written from being a friendly rival into being more of a villain. He and Satoshi (Ash) mutually respect each other in the original, which exposed 4Kids' rewritting of them when the end of the Johto League touched upon their childhood friendship. It's worth nothing his JerkAss personality is a bit closer to his video game counterpart Green/Blue, though.*** SelfDemonstrating/{{Mewtwo}} in ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'' was rewritten as a stereotypical EvilOverlord who wanted to take over the world, similar to the Marik example below. In the original, its main motivation for causing chaos was to find its purpose in life and prove itself worthy of its own existence.** ''[[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Pokémon Chronicles]]'' got so many plot changes it's almost a completely different series than the original Japanese version. This is most evident in the [[NonIndicativeFirstEpisode Non Indicative TV Special]] ''Anime/TheLegendOfThunder''.** 4Kids' dub of Tokyo Mew Mew, which renamed the show into Mew Mew Power (though they were originally going to rename it into Hollywood Mew Mew) is remembered for the massive amounts of changes and edits, from the music to the names, as well as the fact that it was cancelled halfway through. *** Of the countries outside of Japan that aired the show, 75% used the 4Kids dub as a reference, 80% of whom also stopped production at episode 26. The countries that used 4Kids' dub and licensed future episodes varied in production. The French dub of the second half of the show continued to use their original voices and character names, though they restored the original musical theme (with a French translation of the Japanese themes song). The second half of the Hebrew dub continued to use the same voices, but they began to use translations of the original names and attacks. The Portuguese dub of the second half completely ignored the dub of the first half using different names, attack terms, and yes, the entire voice cast was replaced.** The entire premise of the second and third seasons of ''Anime/YuGiOh'', originally a personal quest of self-discovery for each major character, was completely replaced with the generic "villain plotting to take over the world" plot. The final season was also outrageously tampered with due to the particularly high body count that had to get [[NeverSayDie sent to the Shadow Realm]]. [[http://www.yu-jyo.net/index.php This website]] has a comprehensive list of the graphical and dialogue changes introduced in the dub.*** The German dub is mostly based on the 4kids dub. Interestingly, though, quite a lot of actual swearing was added.** With that said, ''ShamanKing,'' a show with death, blood, possession and slapping, got away with what many consider to be one of 4kids' [[PragmaticAdaptation better dubs and kept a lot of the aforementioned in]]. The fact that the big bad, Hao [[spoiler:beats seven shades of crap out of Yoh, then proceeds to rip Yoh's soul out of his body and eat it whole]] during the endgame arc was all shown in the dub had several busybody [[MoralGuardians self-appointed independent TV watchdog groups]] slamming the show. By that point, bad scheduling had done all the damage that could be done to ''Shaman King'''s reputation the the US, and 4Kids went on to do ''Manga/OnePiece.''** 4Kids' dub of ''Manga/OnePiece''. By flensing the series, they managed to take the most popular shounen franchise in Japan since ''Manga/DragonBall'' and effectively bury it in the West. The dub removed multiple episodes and even ''story arcs'', [[DubInducedPlotHole causing significant plot holes that would just get worse as they went along]]. The original's 144 episodes were cut down to ''104''. Needless to say, this infuriated Toei and drove off all their business, forcing the company to practically abandon anime entirely.*** At one point, a rifle is [[FamilyFriendlyFirearms digitally altered into a shovel]]. Several episodes later, when a group of children are actually wielding shovels and other gardening implements as weapons, they are in turn altered into bizarre neon blobs.*** Ale and grog were changed into juice, and guns became water pistols or were recoloured.* Meanwhile, Viz learned from 4Kids' mistakes, produced ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' [[AvertedTrope with minimal edits]], and discovered a [[CashCowFranchise license to print money.]]* Nelvana, a Canadian distribution studio, edited ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' and turned it into "''Cardcaptors''". While their dub Anglcized the characters names and censored some of the more controversial relationships (such as Toya/Yukito and Rika's love for her teacher), it was otherwise passable for a Saturday morning dub. However, the US broadcast on KidsWB! is the one most people remember, since it was extremely hacked up and rewritten. In a rather clumsy attempt to [[{{Shonen}} widen the show's appeal]] beyond its [[{{Shojo}} original demographic]], half the first season was cut out or chopped up into flashback sequences, the episode order changed drastically, and the scripts were rewritten, turning supporting character Syaoran Li into a lead character alongside the original heroine. At the same time, a much more accurate subtitled version was released on tape and DVD under the original name; the DVD version of the original sold so much better that the dub version was discontinued.** The Italian dub didn't go on these lengths, but still managed to do some changes. The relationship between Rika and Terada was changed into being an one-sided crush from Rika's part, while Touya and Yukito's love relationship, along with Tomoyo's crush on Sakura, were turned into a "very strong friendship" to mask their homosexuality. Several names were slightly changed for ease of pronunciation (for example, Touya became Toy, Yukito Yuki and Fujitaka was never referred as such, only as "dad" or "Sakura's father"). The second and third series were also put together as a single one, and both "first" and "second" series received Italian titles than can be translated respectively as "Draw your card Sakura" and "Sakura the game isn't over yet".* ''Anime/VisionOfEscaflowne'' was edited in a similar way by Fox. Most of the drama was removed or rendered incoherent, and the resulting mess was quickly canceled. Furthermore, the first episode was cut entirely because of Fox's concerns that the Hitomi-centric episode would make boys think it was a "girls show". The uncut version by Ocean Group was released on DVD in 2003, and the edited-for-TV version was mercifully forgotten by most.** The German dub of the series was admittedly produced by translating the French dub, not the original Japanese. The result was... rather deviating in both meaning and feel from the original. But in a strange aversion, the voice acting in the German dub proved to be a ''drastic'' improvement over the French dub, so it sounds like a weird trade-off!* For some strange and unfathomable reason, Pioneer's release of the 1997 anime movie Literature/ADogOfFlanders had 10 minutes of its footage cut...even though it never aired on TV. This is particularly strange, as [=DVDs=] exist to provide material that TV broadcasts can't. As of now, said [=DVDs=] have gone out of print, and are extremely expensive where they are sold. * ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' goes both ways!** When ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', a rather darkish series with somewhat outlandish comic relief moments at times, was dubbed into Japanese, it received a GagDub with no sense of self-restraint whatsoever. A lot of Japanese transformers fans were quite unhappy with this.*** Not to mention the fact that the female Airrazor was dubbed into being a younger male. This made things a bit awkward at Dubville when Airrazor became Tigatron's lover in season 2.*** When FOX decided to publish the show (instead of syndication) they removed most of the fight scenes because of decapitation and other "too violent" acts. Despite everyone being a robot. And despite it ruining the pacing and length of the episodes. Thank goodness for the DVD release.** By contrast, American fans were quite pleased with 2001's ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'' which rewrote the bland ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}: Car Robots'' as a maybe-sequel to ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' cartoon. Its endearingly quirky characters and the added {{Mythology Gag}}s were a surprise hit in America, while ''Car Robots'' had done so badly in Japan that it was pulled from television before airing its finale. The changes eventually cross-pollinated back to Japan; an official timeline from [=TakaraTomy=] now places ''Car Robots'' between seasons of the original cartoon, jamming it sideways in order to do so. In America it's simply considered one of many alternate universes.** In ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'', the supposed sequel to ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' and ''Anime/TransformersEnergon'', the original Japanese version was written as an independent series. Unfortunately, Hasbro had already planned to market ''Cybertron'' as a continuation of the first two when ''Galaxy Force'' came out, and had to shoehorn in a few lines about the "Unicron Singularity" warping the very fabric of reality itself as an explanation for the canon dissonance, and even then had to put in 3 manufactured shots of the 2 previous series' characters during the series finale in a desperate attempt to make the whole thing work.*** Ironically, Galaxy Force [[ContinuitySnarl has since been rectonned into Micron Legend continuity in Japan]].*** For an even bigger ContinuitySnarl headache... putting ''Galaxy Force'' in continuity with ''Micron Legend'' and ''Super Link'' is '''not''' the same as putting ''Cybertron'' in continuity with ''Armada'' and ''Energon''. ''Cybertron'', similar to ''Robots in Disguise'', takes a cast of mostly new characters (even if several are {{Expies}}) and makes them new versions of known characters, and makes the series play by previously-established rules when it comes to how stuff works. All you have to do to put them together is say "Sideways is back? Uh, blame Unicron!" Making the Japanese versions one continuity... for example, saying ''Micron Legend'' still happened doesn't necessarily make a single character out of "Doubleface" and "Noisemaze" (both known to us as Sideways) even though they're both horn-headed insignia/switching mysterious double-agents... or does it? Numerous similar examples exist.*** ''Cybertron'' is generally agreed to have been a better show than ''Armada'' and ''Energon'' however, thanks to both a far more entertaining localization which allowed the voice actors to ''act'' again, and not being ''Armada'' or ''Energon''. (''Armada'' and ''Energon'' got a rush-job translation that left a lot to be desired and was sometimes misleading and confusing, and ''Energon'' got the worst of that, lost a ''very'' important episode, ''and'' was far from being Shakespeare in the ''Super Link'' original. ''Robots in Disguise'' and ''Cybertron,'' conversely, are {{Woolseyism}} incarnate.)* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' added a few throwaway lines for humor such as "Matt, you whimper more than my puppy!" from Tai, who had a cat but no puppy, and "I'm even starting to miss my baby brother!" from Mimi, who was an only child. Things like this almost never changed the intent of a scene, though. However, it's not without problems: being produced ''right'' on the heels of the original meant lines could hardly be written with future events in mind, so some continuity errors are also created in ''Adventure, 02, ''and'' Tamers,'' even though the ''Tamers'' dub is otherwise well-liked. (The hardcore purists are just as rabid as with any series, but in, say, Sailor Moon, "they ruined it" means "a full third of the series is cut out, and the season one finale makes no sense at all." In Digimon, "they ruined it" equals "Takato Matsuda is now Takato Matsuki, ''[[FanDumb what butchery!]]''" Though you do have to wonder why they felt such a minor change was necessary.)** The second season, though, is filled with forced humor due to ExecutiveMeddling. A lot of it is at Davis' expense, to the point where the cast comes off as {{Jerkass}}es for picking on him all season, ''long'' after he'd been more than punished enough for being rude to TK in the first two episodes. (Originally, they rebuffed Daisuke when he deserved it, but it wasn't like they ''hated'' him.)** The Filipino dub of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' is an interesting variation in that, while the Americanized terminologies and some names are used, the original unedited Japanese episodes are used and the Japanese script and episode titles are mostly adhered to, and most of the cast is referred to by their original names except, strangely, for Hikari and Miyako who are, respectively, referred to as Kari and Kyo. Arguably, this may be more of a case of Woolseyism. The Mexican dub is also like this, but uses all the US dub names.*** To further confusion, there were at least two Filipino dubs. The first-mentioned one aired on Hero TV. The other, which also referred to Miyako as "Kyo" yet kept Hikari's name, turned out to have its scripts based off of old drafts that were written for Saban's dub. While these drafts stuck closer to the original in parts, Saban's added jokes could also be witnessed. "Kyo" turned out to be a holdover name from Saban's early planning for the 02 dub, though they had also considered "Keely" until someone in production decided to combine the ''yo'' from "Kyo" with ''Lei'' (from Terri-Lei O'Malley's name) to make ''Yolei''.** Finnish dub referred to "Kamiya"... [[InconsistentDub In first episode]].*** The factor of InconsistentDub is amplified further by the fact that after 26 episodes, the original dubbing group (the notorious - and [[UpToEleven not only for]] their SoBadItsGood Anime/DigimonAdventure dub - Agapio Racing Team) dropped the series, getting replaced with the much better Werne. The new dub still had some inconsistencies, though. The Agapio dub was basically cut and paste translation refined to it's logical conclusion. For example, all the attacks of the {{Mon}}s were given new {{Narm}}y Finnish names, often straight-out, word-to-word translations. "Heaven's Knuckle" might sound really cool in English, but I assure you, the corresponding Finnish attack name is anything but cool - especially when performed by a voice actor that is just ''reading the attack name from the script'' without ''any'' attempt to make the acting have any feeling in it.** The Middle Eastern dub of ''Digimon'' erased all references to the taboo concept of "Evolution" ([[EvolutionaryLevels which the series really doesn't even use]]), instead having the monsters shout out "Switching Out For My Big Brother!" whenever they evolved. The "Big Brothers" were kept on a supposedly off-screen base that was referenced repeatedly in dialogue. As one might expect, this made a lot of the series incomprehensible and was once rumored to have not gone down well with the original Japanese creators, who were said to have become extremely picky about having their work released in that particular market.** Calumon in ''Tamers'' faced heavy censorship in the Arabic dub, as the Zero Unit symbol on his forehead was digitally removed due to its slight resemblance to the Star of David.** But the ''real'' job in American ''Digimon'' is the second season's NonSerialMovie, ''Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!/The Golden Digimentals''. It was combined with two short anime movies about the kids from the first season, both of which are canon, so it had to be cracked apart and restitched back together to make it gel with them. Rumor has it that ''Digimon: The Movie'' was so altered that the Screen Actors Guild said it no longer counted as a dub and ordered that the actors be paid the same as they would be if it were an original work.*** [[WordOfGod According to Jeff Nimoy]], he wanted to make that movie separate from the other two (which he was going to combine), but [[ExecutiveMeddling the producers]] told him to mix them all together, forcing him to re-write the translation/script and creating the dub we have in America today.* To prevent children from learning that perverts exist, the French translation of ''Manga/CityHunter'' turned Ryo Saeba into a fanatic vegetarian who liked to eat in vegetarian restaurants, rather than a pervert who liked to invite girls to love hotels.** In Argentina, there is a non-anime cartoon series called ''City Hunters'' with that exact same premise, only with animation (supposedly) supplied by the great Milo Manara, and funded by Axe Deodorant (hence, the series claiming it being "powered by Axe"). Any relation?* ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior'' is more or less given the cold stare from the ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' fandom for being a total mess of changed names, edited scenes that really didn't needed to be edited out and other things besides. It's considered a good thing by the fandom that ''Axess'' was the last in the ''Rockman.EXE'' series to get translated. The truly annoying part is that the franchise already had English names and translations because the source material (the ''Battle Network'' series of video games) had been available in America for years, unnecessarily leaving many characters with three (or more!) names. Even many battle chips were censored that are key chips in the games that presumably the show is trying to help promote. Bizarrely, [=ShoPro=], the studio behind it, also handles the much better ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' dub.** Back in the day, you could get away with using the English ''game'' names in an otherwise rabid community, as long as you stayed clear of "NT Warrior".** ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce'' held up a bit better; the only real change is combining every pair of 10-minute episodes into a half-hour block. (But again, some of the human [=NPCs=] have three names now, notably Hibiki Misora/Sonia Strumm/Sonia Skye. And the name "Omega-Xis" still sounds funny...)* ''Anime/TekkamanBlade'' got a fairly standard Macekre-ish dubbing into ''Teknoman'' for release in English-speaking countries. Oddly enough, after a [[ShortRunInPeru Full Run In Australia]], the series was Macekred even ''more'' before being released in the US.* ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' wins a lifetime achievement award for this trope. There have been five separate English dubs of various parts of the franchise: ''Anime/BattleOfThePlanets'', ''G-Force: Guardians of Space'', ''Eagle Riders'', the Urban Vision dub of the ''Gatchaman'' {{OVA}}, and finally Creator/ADVFilms' dub of the original series. The ADV dub is the only one of these that ''didn't'' have character names and plot points rewritten wholesale.** The first of these adaptations, ''Anime/BattleOfThePlanets'', is generally thought to be its own separate entity due to the amount of censorship and rewrites that went into it, along with the newly-added OffModel animation made to cover up the missing material. Pretty much considered an early example of a Macekre, even with its better points. Most overseas releases of Gatchaman based their scripts off of this adaptation (since Sandy Frank held the international license), although there would be the occasional dub that stuck to the Japanese version or those that adapted from ''G-Force'' and ''Eagle Riders''.** While most of these English adaptations used either the first Gatchaman TV series or OVA for their source material, ''Eagle Riders'' was a Macekre of the second and third series (Gatchaman II and Gatchaman Fighter). Numerous episodes were cut, some episodes were rearranged or had portions from others spliced together, nobody could die, and the series ends on a random episode with no resolution to the Eagle Riders' battle against their enemies.* The German dub of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' is hilarious. They took the (moderately) edited American version and ''[[UpToEleven edited it even further]]'', going as far as erasing any {{Nosebleed}}. Apart from NeverSayDie taken to the extreme (Orochimaru suggested Kabuto he'd have to "hide Sasuke forever"), they also often make weapons look like lightsabers, cut out attacking-scenes altogether and have still-standing scenes on par with ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. You can guess what things like the Haku-Zabuza arc looked like. Furthermore, they cut the ''entire backstory'' with Kyuubi attacking the village. If that isn't enough, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8xoTBZrzko the German opening]].** The second anime [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoTqA325LCo&feature=related OP fared no better.]]** Furthermore, the TV Station responsible for this ''forbade the voice actors from acting too dramatic''. Even the actors themselves complained about this with the German Manga/OnePiece dub...*** Then there's [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v252/42631/GermanyDubFail.jpg this]]. (Originally, the character was standing on the handle of a giant sword stuck in the tree. In the German dub, the blade got erased, so now the character is... standing on a magical levitating stick?!)* ''Anime/SamuraiPizzaCats'' was a big one as well. Saban never got the original scripts for it, so just made up dialogue that fit the images on screen and the MouthFlaps. And it ''worked'', too -- the show was [[GagDub hilarious]].** Brought into debate by an interview with Creator/RobertAxelrod, one of the writers, who swears he had a script to work from, in Main/{{Engrish}}.* The ''Anime/ForceFive'' were sloppily edited versions of some awesome SuperRobot shows made [[MerchandiseDriven to promote the Shogun Warriors toys]] by Jim Terry's American Way company.** Jim Terry was also responsible for ''Crushers'', a 1988 dubbed version of the ''LightNovel/CrusherJoe'' movie with 40 minutes cut out.** Also from Terry was ''Time Fighters'' and ''Time Fighters in the Land of Fantasy'', a pair of 95-minute features cobbled together from episodes of the first ''Anime/TimeBokan'' series.* ''Anime/UchuuSenkanYamato''/''Anime/StarBlazers''** The names were changed to supposedly "spacey" futuristic-y things. Kodai Susumu -> Derek Wildstar? Yuki Mori -> Nova.** Everything had the usual edited-out dead bodies. (Honestly, they looked more like one-color mannequins anyway.)** The speech given by Kodai in Season 1, episode 24 was lessened.--->'''Kodai:''' "We weren't meant to fight! WE WERE MEANT TO LOVE EACH OTHER! Victory...?** Dessler's (Desslok's) chant was changed from something like "Long live my lord!" to the more catchy "Desslok Desslok Deeeeeesslok!"** In the US version of Season 1, Nova went into a [[spoiler:"coma"]] from the [[spoiler:poisonous radioactive gas released into the ship by Desslok.]] In the Japanese version, she actually ''[[spoiler:died]]'' (explaining the freaked-out looks on some of the other Star Force members' faces when he takes her onto the bridge) and was ''[[spoiler:revived ]]'' [[spoiler:by the Desslok Cannon.]]** In Season 3, the Bolar Wars, they gave the Pillsbury-Doughboy-like BigBad a ridiculous Russian accent that detracts from his pasty-white creepiness.** Also, they conveniently forget to remind us that [[spoiler:Iskandar was destroyed, so the Star Force can't go there for the new Earth.]] And the very weird final battle was weirded even more due to bad translation of the "Black Hole Gun".** You know the random dude whose parents died in the sun? Well, rather than having some CharacterDevelopment he just ends up doing some random things like peeling potatoes even though he's a fully trained fighter pilot and then [[spoiler:dying in a half-pointless HeroicSacrifice]].** The Comet Empire movie. [[spoiler:The one where they all die.]] Like 20 minutes were cut out, Desslok sounds like a whiny EmoTeen [[spoiler:immediately negating the TearJerker of his absolutely tragic suicide]], and (this applies to the TV season too) Advisor Invidia was somehow transformed into Princess Invidia.* "''Knights of the Zodiac''", the English broadcast dub (though not the Creator/ADVFilms dub) of ''SaintSeiya'' tried to eliminate all references to death, excessive violence and religion out of a show about ''saints'' of the Greek ''goddess'' Athena fighting ''holy wars'' against the servants of a corrupt ''pope''. And that's not even taking into account changing a [[HighPressureBlood ridiculous amount of blood]] into "spiritual energy" and giving the Siberian a surfer's accent.** "[[Music/AFlockOfSeagulls And I ran]], [[Music/BowlingForSoup I ran so far away...]]" Seriously? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpxrsEAIMT4 one of the most epic songs in HISTORY]] didn't cut it here?* Narrowly avoided with ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'': the licensors, Enoki Films gave English names to the main characters in promotional material, but the American distributors, CentralParkMedia, used the original names.** Unfortunately for Latin American fans, the Enoki Films names were used for the series' Spanish dub, including the title being changed to "Ursula's Magic Ring". It was also aired in a children's timeslot. A Tagalog dub aired in the Philippines also used the Enoki Films names.* The Spanish translation for the ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' manga by Glenat removes almost all of the non-visual ShoutOut gags (Despite [[TheyJustDidntCare them being one of the pillars of the series' humor.]]), with the few ones left [[DontExplainTheJoke being made extremely obvious]], uses [[TotallyRadical awful slang]] when it doesn't fit at all, translates [[{{Otaku}} untranslatable words]] yet leaves perfectly translatable words in Japanese, and other such issues. Worst of all (And most fitting for the trope), the [[JapaneseHolidays White Day]] mini-arc got any mentions of the words "White Day" ''entirely removed'' (Or any mention of there being a holiday, for that matter), turning a standard Manga High School plot into a random and contrived story, despite minor stuff getting translation notes. The same translator handles ''{{Negima}}'' and ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'', and they all also suffer the same kind of issues, plus the former gave one of the {{Anime Chinese Girl}}s a horrible Chinese accent that doesn't fits her and that she never had, yet the other AnimeChineseGirl, who used actual "Chinese-speak" in the original, doesn't have an accent, and the latter series gets translator notes for ''stuff that is being read on panel'' (Accurately read, case you were wondering). Ultimately, the publisher discontinued the manga since 2010 owing to horrid reception from fans and readers alike.* The official English translation of ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima!'' can be quite spotty depending on who's doing the translation; volumes 5, 20, and 21 all mess around with the translation a bit. Volume 1 is worst though, as entire conversations were completely rewritten to be lead-ins to (bad) jokes, and it was stuffed full of pointless pop culture references; the only thing saving the volume being the NarmCharm. Fortunately, Kodansha USA noticed, and now that they're in charge of the English release, the translation quality has improved and the first three volumes are being retranslated.* In 1985, staff in the USA combined footage from ''Anime/GoShogun'' and ''Akū Daisakusen Srungle'', a similar show produced by Kokusai Eiga-sha, to form ''Macron-1'', which portrays the Srungle characters as being part of another branch of the organization fighting evil in a parallel universe. This combined series was produced and released in the United States by Saban.** The U.S. version involves test pilot David Chance travelling into a parallel universe under the tyrannical control of an organization called GRIP, led by Dark Star. Chance's entrance into the other universe allows GRIP to send their forces to Earth, leaving Dark Star's cyborg henchman Orn to remain in control in the alternate universe. GRIP is opposed by the two teams of Macron-1, the first led by Dr. Shegall and his team on Earth (from the ''Go Shogun'' footage), while in the alternate universe Chance organizes a band of rebel warriors, Beta Command, to combat and overthrow Orn (from the Srungle footage). The Beta Command members were given much less screen time than the Earth team.*** The dubbed US version was voiced by the same cast as Carl Macek's Harmony Gold adaptation of ''Macross'', ''Genesis Climber Mospeada'', and others into ''Robotech''.* The English ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' fall into this trope, particularly the Freeza arc. [[WordOfGod Chris Sabat has stated]] that this is largely due to the fact that nobody had any idea what they were doing and the English scripts they received from Japan were [[BlindIdiotTranslation near incomprehensible]] at times, leading to them to having to come up with their own stuff for a while. Fortunately, ItGetsBetter once they started progressing further on. The Cell Saga is more accurate, but still has with some dialogue changes. The Buu Saga is the most accurate in the series, as the lines are generally close to the original. Creator/FUNimation re-dubbed the Saiyan Saga but unfortunately they barely changed the inaccurate script from the earlier Ocean Group Dub. They only fixed particularly inaccurate lines (such as claims by Vegeta, that Bardock was a scientist).* The French version of ''[[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma ˝]]'' can compete with the worst American butchering of anime. Except for the main character's first name, all the names were changed to French ones -- and they couldn't even stay consistent throughout the series. The voice actors overall aren't much to blame as they were doing a good job, but they could only work with what was given to them... including some characters switching voice from one episode to the other. And there were plenty of cuts to make the series more child-friendly, especially concerning nudity or Happōsai's DirtyOldMan behavior -- he was supposed not to collect underwear but ''[[ViewersAreMorons silk handkerchiefs]]''. This certainly limited the popularity of ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma ˝]]'' in France for a while compared to other countries. The manga translation was of rather poor quality too, but at least the characters (mostly) kept their original names.** A similar thing happened with ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma ˝]]'' in Mexico. Although only one character's name was changed (and then restored), there was atrocious butchering of scenes to eliminate nudity, episodes aired out of order, and it eliminated some characters' trademark speech patterns, like Kuno's poetry or Shampoo's pidgin speak.** Notably [[AvertedTrope averted]] with the German dub, which only changed Ryoga's name rather randomly to "Dyoga", but stayed faithful to the original otherwise; no instances of nudity were edited out, and NeverSayDie was not put into effect. "Notable" because it used to air on [[Creator/RTL2 the very channel]] that would later go on to bring us the butchered ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' dub noted further up the page. Curiously, the series has yet to be re-broadcast, probably because of a higher threshold for what constitutes [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids suitable viewing for children on German TV]].* Anyone who has read the US manga version of ''Manga/BattleRoyale'' will run into some outcry against what writer Keith Giffen did to the story's dialogue. To be fair, this was not entirely his fault, as he was simply following orders [[ExecutiveMeddling from Tokyopop]]. In fact, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Royale_(manga)#TOKYOPOP_Version Tokyopop later explained why they allowed Giffen to mess with the original script]]. It's also worth mentioning that none of the violence and sex got cut, so plenty of what (author) Koushun Takami and (artist) Masayuki Taguchi's work for the Japanese version remains intact. Still, the major changes (turning the program into a Reality TV program, a conceit that utterly fails by the final volume), will have purists shaking their heads.* The US edition of ''IkkiTousen'' is filled to the brim with shout outs.* In the American dub of ''Anime/KirbyOfTheStars'' (entitled ''Kirby: Right Back at Ya!''), the finale episodes in Japan were aired in the middle of the series in the American dub, and edited as a way to promote the then-upcoming ''Kirby Air Ride''.* Though they never succeeded, if you look up the Gaga Communications trailers for 1988 on YouTube, they were clearly anticipating this trope. Titles and character names for series (including some ones which eventually went on to be well-known in the West), for example, and some details of the stories are already changed -- all without a single bit of English dubbing. Perhaps this is just as well -- for example, imagine ''Anime/ProjectAKo'' as "Supernova". (This particular trailer inspired someone to do a {{Bowdlerize}}d fan-edit of the first episode as if it had been taken up by Celebrity Home Entertainment for their "Just for Kids" label- which can also be found on YouTube.)* The Portuguese Dragon Ball Z is kinda unique. From nonsense speech like King Kai calling the firemen because the Earth is going to explode to really strange and exaggerated voices.** Really, just go to Youtube and you'll find thousands of videos about it. It's impossible to not laugh.* The English dub of the 2001 ''Manga/{{Cyborg 009}}'' series suffered this, as part of Sony Pictures' attempt to sanitize it for younger viewers. The dialogue changes and visual cuts also carried over to other countries that Sony distributed the anime through, as they were given the English dub scripts to adapt. It also experienced inconsistent dubbing, with the faithfulness of scripts and dialogue varying heavily, and some episodes' flashbacks not even retaining the dialogue that was in the sourced episodes.** While several of the earlier episodes had aired in a less-edited format in their initial run on Toonami, complaints caused them to be censored and redubbed further. One such case was Cyborg 0010-'s line "Truly, I'm your brother from Hell!" (in episode 3, "Assassin of Flash"), which wound up redubbed to be "I am your brother gone BAD!". 002's invocation of "I don't even believe in God!" was also later toned down to "I couldn't even trust my parents!". An utterance of "Damn it!" from 004 was muted in later airings of episode 32 ("Man or Machine?").** 002's atheism in general was nixed from the dub. Aside from the redubbing of his line in episode 3, his speech in episode 48 where he monologues about praying to God for the first time ''also'' got toned down, to a generic speech where he muses over having to save the world and do what's right.*** 002's whole JerkWithAHeartOfGold personality and ruder dialogue was also softened; while still having his jerk moments and hot-headed nature, he comes off nicer about it in the dub. One example involved his establishing line from episode 1; while in the original he tells 009 to shut up and claims that he'll drop him if he won't stay quiet (asking "If you insist on that, where would you like to fall?"), the dub toned it down to 002 telling 009 "Relax, or you'll fall!". ** The dub in general became a case of HurricaneOfPuns and added dialogue, especially in scenes that were meant to be dramatic or silent.** The Pu'Awak sisters' deaths at the end of the Yomi arc underwent censorship; the dub was allowed to imply that they'd been shot, but the actual scene was trimmed out. Instead, the girls are heard screaming, and then fall to the ground. ** Most infamously, 009 and 002's final stretch of dialogue underwent some severe liberties. Originally, 002 is regretful that he and 009 are going to have to die, and calls himself an idiot for flying up into space while low on fuel. The dub has 002 a little more at peace with his impending death, claiming "It's my time and I'm ready". The fact that they're going to die is also toned down to a mere implication, although the animation suggests something more dire. Finally, the final lines of 009 pleading for 002 to save himself and 002 asking "Joe, where do you want to fall?". The dub turned it into accidental HoYay innuendo, with 009 saying "Jet, I..." with 002 cutting him off and saying "I know, Joe. Me too. You don't have to say it."** 004's fiancee Hilda was upgraded to being his "wife" in the dub of the episode "Gilmore's Notes", which also took huge liberties with the rest of the dialogue and created more than one DubInducedPlotHole.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Asian Animation]]* ''WesternAnimation/YoohooAndFriends'' was originally a [[HangukManhwaAenimeisyeon Korean cartoon]] about {{Ridiculously Cute Critter}}s going on wacky adventures. The US version, created by David Feiss, threw in a subplot about the titular characters being {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s who were turned into animals as punishment for their crimes against the environment. The contrast between the original footage and the new footage is very noticable and jarring. [[https://24.media.tumblr.com/28be69e3cc2aae71b6e4364c56910de1/tumblr_n6t0dmj71M1qg1i67o1_500.png The elephants are supposed to be the same character.]][[/folder]]

[[folder:Card Games]]* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' often changes card art and flavour for Chinese audiences, sometimes significantly, to [[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/arcana/948 avoid depicting skeletons]].** Ironic, since the one with skin was a ''lot'' creepier...*** This is due to Chinese laws prohibiting the display of bones to encourage positive behaviour in society or the like. ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has its models altered for the Chinese servers (the exposed bones on the playable Undead faction are covered with skin) and has led to problems getting the ''Wrath of the Lich King'' expansion, primarily focused on defeating a giant army of Undead, past the censors.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Comics]]* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' was first translated into German by Rolf Kauka, who changed the Gauls into Germanics, naming them "Siggi und Barabbas" instead. When Nationality Confusion ensued in the book ''Asterix and the Goths'' (no, not [[{{Goth}} those]]), Kauka made the Goths "Eastern Goths", depicting them as Communists from UsefulNotes/EastGermany. The Macekre came to its end when he made TheDragon of ''The Golden Sickle'' (who [[spoiler:kidnapped the sickle maker and]] sold overpriced golden sickles) speak with a Jewish accent. [[Creator/ReneGoscinny Goscinny]] was enraged after reading the re-translated comic and forbade Kauka further translations.** ''Asterix'' also underwent this in its first ever English translations for the UK market -- where the Gauls were transformed into ''ancient Britons''. Before the Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge albums, two separate children's magazines printed a few storylines where Asterix and Obelix were known as "Little Fred and Big Ed" and "Beric the Bold and the Son of Boadicea".[[/folder]]

[[folder:Films -- Animation]]* In the German dub of ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', the line where Milo screams that Rourke will sell the crystal as a weapon to the Kaiser (a reference to the UsefulNotes/FirstWorldWar standing at the doorsteps, perhaps) was changed into Milo screaming that Rourke will sell it "to some kind of tyrant".* The original New World Pictures dub of ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' was {{Macekre}}d so heavily that Creator/HayaoMiyazaki held off licensing his other films until someone approached him with a deal that ''stipulated'' no changes to the script or editing. This one is perhaps the most ''reviled'' C&P Translation of the 1980s, if only because the effects of the mauling of a work perceived by the Japanese as practically a national treasure are still felt in the industry; many Japanese companies still remember what happened to ''Nausicaa'' and are now incredibly paranoid ''themselves'' about any changes to their product in translation, [[TropesAreNotBad even if it would help]] [[{{Woolseyism}} that product]] (or sometimes [[BlindIdiotTranslation ensure it even makes sense]]).** An old video box for "''Warriors of the Wind''" features [[CoversAlwaysLie a prominently placed heroic looking male figure, along with a bunch of other things with no bearing on the film]]. They didn't add any such character to the film itself, though, making the poster art just peculiar.** When Miramax picked up ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'', one of Studio Ghibli's producers didn't forget the previous disaster and reportedly [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome sent the Miramax execs a katana with a note saying "No cuts."]]** Changes to dialogue HAVE been made, however. But, thankfully, {{Disney}} has been extremely good to not {{Macekre}} them: no names are changed, sometimes remarks are added to fill silence in a shot (a noted quirk of Japanese animation), and the general feel of the original dialogue is always kept. ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' and ''Anime/SpiritedAway'' contain some of the most glaring examples IF you are familiar with both the sub and dub, but those glaring examples are justified - the dub dialogue explains things about the world or mythos of the work (like the idea that a severed head can still bite - it comes from Japanese folklore, and wouldn't be unheard of to Japanese viewers to see a wolf-spirit's head do just that; to American audiences, however, it would seem like an ass-pull if not [[ChekhovsGun alluded to earlier]].* Speaking of Miyazaki, the Streamline dub of ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro'' made a number of changes to the movie, changing the plot, inserting cheesy dialogue, and stuffing dialogue where it shouldn't have been. It also includes the single line most often brought up as the archetypal example of a "{{Macekre}}": "Should've worn an asbestos suit." Later, it was redubbed much more faithfully (albeit with the unnecessary addition of ObligatorySwearing that was never present in the original language).* New World Pictures performed similar duties on several other anime pictures, including ''Anime/GalaxyExpress999'' and ''Anime/AngelsEgg'', which suffered the indignity of having live-action footage added and being released as a post-apocalyptic thriller.* The CGI film remake of ''Series/TheMagicRoundabout'' was very well-received over in European countries. When The Weinstein Company was given the task to distribute it in America, they figured that Americans would be unfamiliar with the series, so they renamed the title to "Doogal", and basically took a hacksaw to the film. For starters, they ''dubbed over dialogue that was already in English'', inserted ''painfully'' unfunny pop-culture jokes (example: A group of skeletons pop out, and one says, "Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbean!", then the other remarks, "I told you, no Creator/{{Disney}} jokes!"), made the blue moose talk and fart (he didn't do any of that in the original version), and advertised it as an action/adventure movie.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Films -- Live Action]]* Creator/FritzLang's ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'' was {{Macekre}}d originally on its American release, with the American distributor publically priding themselves on having essentially chopped it up and rewritten it, leading to much of the film being [[MissingEpisode lost for a century]]... It has now been found.* Quite a few of the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' movies, beginning with inserting Raymond Burr into ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters'', but contrary to popular belief, King Kong won in the Japanese ''and'' American versions of ''Film/KingKongVsGodzilla''. The [[Film/{{Gojira}} 1954 original]] is surprisingly excellent in its unadulterated, non-dubbed form. ''Film/{{Godzilla 2000}}'' received a {{gagdub}} from Tri-Star, as the original version was regarded as slow-paced and dull.* The main method of the Film/GodfreyHoNinjaMovies. Godfrey Ho was infamous for getting cheap, low-budget Hong Kong films, cutting them to ribbons, and inserting new footage featuring Caucasian actors for distribution in the West. Among his films are ''Ninja Thunderbolt'', ''Clash of the Ninjas'', ''Full Metal Ninja'', and ''Zombie Vs. Ninja'' (ninjas seem to be a pretty recurring theme, although later efforts included 'Kickboxer' movies and even a 'superhero' called Catman). He's also done it at least once in the other direction, adding new footage using Asian actors to the Cynthia Rothrock vehicle ''Undefeatable'' to create the movie ''Bloody Mary Killer'' for distribution in China.* Woody Allen's ''What's Up, Tiger Lily?'' and Steve Oedekerk's ''Kung Pow!: Enter the Fist'' are what happens when the CutAndPasteTranslation is combined with the GagDub and played entirely for comedy.* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_with_Cracked_Fingers Master with Cracked Fingers]]'' was a 1979 film cut together from different early JackieChan films, as a means to cash in on his rising fame. It primarily took footage from the little-seen 1973 film ''Little Tiger of Canton'', but featured several newly-filmed scenes with a [[FakeShemp double]] playing Jackie's character (badly disguised with a blindfold).* JackieChan did one himself with his Hong Kong ReCut of ''The Protector'', made because of creative differences with director James Glickenhaus who made the movie in an allegedly typical American style which differed significantly from what we'd normally expect of a JackieChan movie. Chan re-shot some of the fight sequences in his own style as well as scenes featuring gratuitous nudity, added a sub-plot featuring Cantopop singer and actress Sally Yeh, and made various other edits to improve the pace. Apparently the Hong Kong version performed modestly at the box office, whereas Glickenhaus' original bombed in the US.* Several Sovet sci-fi films got the cut-and-paste treatment (or were used as StockFootage) to make Western B-movies:** ''Planeta Bur'' was edited ''twice'' for distribution in the West: once as ''Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet'' by Curtis Harrington in 1965, containing a few additional American-made scenes and with the Soviet actors' names Westernised to hide the origin; another in 1968 by Peter Bogdanovich (as "Derek Thomas") as ''Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women'', along with additional scenes involving nubile Venusian women. ** ''Nebo Zovyot'' was adapted as ''Battle Beyond The Sun''. To disguise the fact that it involves rival space missions between the Soviet Union and America, the two nations become the northern and southern hemispheres in a post apocalyptic world. (Interestingly enough the services of a student Creator/FrancisFordCoppola were employed to make the adaptation, with one of his notable additions supposedly being the creation of two monsters based on certain parts of the human anatomy (no prizes for guessing which).)*** Scenes from ''Nebo Zovyot'' were also used in ''Voyage To the Prehistoric Planet''.*** And then it was used along with with yet another Soviet film ''Mechte Navstrechu'' to create the 1966 horror/sci-fi film ''Queen Of Blood'' (yes, featuring an [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot alien vampire woman]]).* ''Film/TheManWhoSavesTheWorld'' a.k.a. "Turkish Star Wars" technically counts as an aversion, since [[Film/ANewHope the Star Wars movie it had took footage from]] had already been released in Turkey by the point it was made, so despite what the nickname may suggest it's less "Turkish cut-and-paste translation of ''StarWars''" as it is "random Z-movie that happened to use an already well-known movie as StockFootage ([[StockFootageFailure badly]])."[[/folder]]

[[folder:Literature]]* ''Literature/TheBible'':** The translation of Literature/TheBible directed by King James the 1st of England is the UrExample. Instructions were given to the translators to make sure the translation supported the views of the Church of England.** Interestingly enough, many [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist]] Christians claim that the King James version is the only true translation of Literature/TheBible, and all other translations have been Macekred by {{Satan}} himself. The movement is named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Only_movement King James Only]] and ''some'' advocates go UpToEleven saying that the English King James is a new superior revelation that ''replaces'' the Bible in all languages, including the originals.** The King James Version wasn't {{Macekre}}d enough, apparently. For instance, the original New Testament denounces ''malakoi''. ''Malakos'' is Greek for "soft". Many Greeks saw luxury as "weakening", while Spartan conditions made men strong, hence the word "spartan". So, it might appear to be denouncing the rich, made too soft by their easy lifestyles (and/or, as Wesley understood it, unwilling to endure the hardships demanded by the Christian life). The KJV translated it as "effeminate". [=20th-century=] translations, being what they were, further {{Macekre}}d "effeminate" into "homosexual", keeping with [[ScienceMarchesOn the psychiatric theories of the time]]. The Old Testament still denounces men who "lie with men [[{{Uke}} as with women]]" in some translations; take what you will from that. Of course, many fundamentalists have no problem citing different Bibles to fit their political views, making for a ''literal'' CutAndPasteTranslation.** There's also teetotaller translations which selectively translate the same word as either "wine" or "unfermented grape juice" depending on whether the context of the rest of the line is speaking of it as pleasurable or warning against the dangers of overindulging (where "overindulging" is, for these congregations, defined as "imbibing at all").** There is also research suggesting that translations of the Bible are almost perfect translations of extant copies of the Old Testament and a few New Testament passages such as what are found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and these translations are actually within 90% accuracy from the originals.*** The oldest extant Hebrew versions of Old Testament (Tanakh for Jewish tropers) date only to the 11th century. While it is highly likely the Old Testament was indeed written in Aramaic and Hebrew, the oldest extant canon of Bible is the Greek edition of Old Testament, Septuaginta (often referred as LXX), which dates to 2nd century BC, and was intended for the Jews in Alexandria.* Matthew Ward's English translation of ''TheStranger'' (currently the most popular one in America) spends some time bashing Stuart Gilbert's (which before his was the ''only'' one available in America.) In the original French, and in Ward's version, the narrator begins as a TerseTalker in the vein of an Creator/ErnestHemingway protagonist, then becomes oddly lyrical after going to jail. Gilbert essentially turns him British, and incidentally rewrites some of his [[CloudCuckooLander odder]] comments to sound more conventional.* Used in-story in Creator/AynRand's ''WeTheLiving'', where Kira and Leo go to see a movie called ''The Golden Octopus'', which is a laughably censored American film with unfitting subtitles and obviously different-looking Russian footage added at the beginning.* Until 2011, the one extant translation of Creator/StanislawLem's ''Literature/{{Solaris}}'' into English was based on a French translation rather than the original Polish novel, and suffered accordingly. Lem, who was fluent in English, vocally disapproved of the double translation, but the rights to the novel belong to his Polish publisher and they have thus far had no interest in commissioning another. However, it turned out that the publisher only has the rights to ''paper'' editions, and in 2011, a new translation by Bill Johnston was released as an audiobook and a Kindle e-book.* This sort of thing happened even before animation itself: In the 19th century, the works of Creator/JulesVerne got altered drastically when translated into English, generally by utterly incompetent people who made basic mistakes and replaced all of the greatly-detailed (albeit [[ScienceMarchesOn outdated]]) science with ''even worse'' scientific and mathematical errors, and often cut out entire chapters. The most [[TVTropesWikiDrinkingGame egregious]] example is quite possibly an early translation of ''JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth'', which is [[BileFascination affectionately]] known as the "Hardwigg version" among [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative people who care]], after the [[DubNameChange Translation Name Change]] of TheProfessor. It changed the writing style of the novel ''completely.''* The German translation of Terry Pratchett's ''Literature/GoodOmens'' completely omits the homosexual content about Aziraphale: "gayer than a tree full of monkeys high on nitrous oxide" becomes "whimsical (verschmitzt) as a tree full of monkeys" which doesn't really make sense. Also, Shadwell's "Southern Pansy" becomes something else entirely. It's not really clear why, because neither are those lines likely to be offensive nor is German society extra sensitive about homosexuality.** This is a result of the translator thinking HavingAGayOldTime is in effect.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Live Action TV ]]* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' to ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', with the battle footage spliced into entirely new stories. The first three seasons of the latter took three completely seperate seasons of the former and reworked it into one "[[StoryArc mega-arc]]", and the later incarnations seem to only be superficially similar to their originals, with the motives of the characters and some story elements being completely changed. Of course, ''Power Rangers'' was never intended and doesn't claim to be a dub/reenactment of its ''Super Sentai'' parent, despite borrowing suits and battle footage.** It should also be noted that certain ''Power Rangers'' seasons have stuck decidedly close to their source material, like ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'' sticking to ''Series/MiraiSentaiTimeranger''[='=]s original plot or more drastically, the {{Shot For Shot Remake}}s ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'' and ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai''. Others have had varying levels of similarity, such as ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger'' into ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'' and ''Series/DenjiSentaiMegaranger'' into ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace''. ''Carranger'' was a '''parody''' Sentai show, and ''Turbo'' suffered from many reasons on top of that footage (seriously, the Rangers were once ''[[NeverLiveItDown baked into a pizza]]''); such is that Disney was wiser when adaptating the equally campy ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'' into the apocalyptic ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'', and mostly {{Lampshaded}} and moved right past some of the inescapably Go-Ongery elements (such as mech designs). ''In Space,'' on the other hand, was a drastic variation upon the ''Sentai'' version; ''Megaranger'' never even left the Earth, instead literally surfing the web![[note]]Mainly because Saban already did the "Rangers surfing the web" thing with ''Series/VRTroopers''.[[/note]] ''In Space'' was [[TropesAreNotBad a smash hit, though]].*** Also, ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' takes place on a space station and leaves Earth in the rear view mirror in episode one, never to return outside of {{Reunion Show}}s. Some episodes owe more to ''Franchise/StarTrek'' and ''Franchise/StarWars'' than past incarnations of ''Power Rangers''. ''Series/SeijuuSentaiGingaman'' is... not like that. Didn't stop ''Lost Galaxy'' from achieving the highest viewing figures (...at the beginning, because Saban {{screwed|by the network}} it in favor of the ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' dub).**** Conversely, ''Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger'' is a homage to ''Franchise/StarWars''. The second season of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''...is not.**** ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'' was another season that took a decent distance from its source material. While ''Series/NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger'' was not exactly a serious season, ''Ninja Storm'' takes camp and runs with it, with overexcitable heroes, bumbling villains and LampshadeHanging on the loose.** Taken to a frustrating extreme with Disney's "remastering" of the original ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''. Rather than simply sharpening up the image, random freeze-frames and [[ViewersAreMorons comic book-style character explanations]] run rampant, and flashy-yet-crappy CGI has been randomly spliced into the 1993 footage. To be fair, some of this was mandated; censors are stricter about on-screen violence these days so {{Hit Flash}}es served a practical purpose in obscuring the blows.** In the third series of the original show, the Ninjazords appeared first, followed by the Shogunzords. In the original Kakuranger, however, it was the reverse. Essentially, the ''entire second half'' of Kakuranger was used first. To give an example, Vampirus was the first monster of the week for the season. His Sentai equivalent was in episode ''36''.** ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'' was a ShotForShotRemake at first, but Deker and Dayu had to be have their stories changed for censorship reasons. By the end, though, it made them much more sympathetic characters, and therefore tragic when [[spoiler:NeverSayDie doesn't mean you can't kill them after all.]]** Meanwhile, ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'' couldn't be more un-''Goseiger,'' as an affectionate nod to ''MMPR'' to the point of practically being a remake. Frequent use of Gosei Cards in the Japanese scenes means an unprecedented number of sentai weapon/attack/zord names are kept, but the story's more reminiscent of MMPR, and also a sequel to it, with Zordon's {{Expy}} being an old ''student'' of his. Where the UMA Beasts followed the Warstar Empire and were linked only by having Buredoran being with but not of them, the insects and the toxic mutants are now working side by side. The final villain group has Metal Alice being the Buredoran {{Expy}} Vrak's personal minion and their base being his personal base. Robogog is almost adapted out and used as a part of the next villain group of Gokiager, as an emissary announcing their arrival.* ''Series/VRTroopers'' was made from three different ''Franchise/MetalHeroes'' series: ''Series/ChoujinkiMetalder'', ''Series/JikuuSenshiSpielban'', and ''Series/SpaceSheriffShaider''. Somehow, having ''three'' shows to draw on didn't stop it from [[RecycledScript recycling plots]].* When the ''[[Franchise/UltraSeries Ultraman]]'' series ''Series/UltraSeven'', was dubbed into English by {{Cinar}} for Creator/{{TBS}}, it received a bizarre GagDub that made it almost entirely incomprehensible. This version has since been almost entirely forgotten even by fans of the series. The ''Series/UltramanTiga'' dub was a SpiritualSuccessor of sorts to it, but is much better about not being incomprehensible.* To capitalise on the success of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', Saban licensed ''Series/KamenRiderBlackRX'' and turned it into ''"Saban's Series/MaskedRider"'': a gay old [[AnAesop Aesop-tastic]] romp starring a [[HumanAliens superhero alien]] [[HumansThroughAlienEyes learning about Earth culture]] with his adoptive American family. Later the editing got so shoddy that at times you could clearly see the original Japanese actors, or the fact that the footage they were splicing in was from two seperate movies (''Film/KamenRiderZO'' and ''Film/KamenRiderJ'') starring completely different heroes. Reportedly, Creator ShotaroIshinomori was so incensed by Saban's take that he swore never to license the franchise again[[note]]Which is why ''Dragon Knight'', below, was made almost ten years after his death and its creators had to prove to Toei that they wouldn't repeat Saban's mistakes in order to get the license in the first place[[/note]].** ''Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight'' did much better[[note]]at least, with the adult PeripheryDemographic that makes up the the western ''Kamen Rider'' fanbase[[/note]], even winning a Daytime Emmy for stunt choreography. Its ratings meant not enough of the intended demographic were watching to keep it alive. The last two episodes weren't even aired, though were made available on the website. Odds are, we aren't getting that second season. It, too, is dissimilar from its footage-sake, and it's best if you don't go in with a "Ryuki Dub" mentality (see some of the ''Power Rangers'' examples above; TropesAreNotBad.) Interestingly, ''Dragon Knight'' became a RecursiveImport and did quite well back in Japan. It even got a continuation... sadly, in the form of a book nobody back in the US will probably ever see.* As if Saban hadn't done enough toku cut-and-paste jobs, they licensed two '''more''' ''Metal Heros'' series, ''Series/JuukouBFighter'' and ''Series/BFighterKabuto'' and turned them into ''Series/{{Beetleborgs}}'', apparently aimed at a younger demographic than ''PowerRangers'' and being more light-hearted, and changing the story utterly from the Japanese originals.* This happened to ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' when it was dubbed into German. In the episode "Amok Time", in which Spock must return to his home planet to mate or else die, all sexual references were cut and the plot changed so that he was suffering from "space fever", making his battle to the death with Kirk a mere hallucination.** And that was just the worst example. The whole series was suffering severely from massive cuts, a severe case of GagDub and a massive case of censorship though the dub, sometimes even destroying the structure of the episode. When the DVD got produced, Paramount had to spend lots of money to restore the series and correct the worst of this madness.* In one of several early, unsuccessful atempts to introduce ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' to American audiences (unrelated to ''And Now For Something Completely Different''), American network Creator/{{ABC}} bought some episodes from the John Cleese-less final season with the sole intention of cutting out separate sketches and inserting them as filler into a different show, called ''The Wide World of Comedy''. This was done very clumsily, with rampant censorship, and the result was reportedly incomprehensible. The Pythons, who had in their contract a clause that their show would not be re-cut without their permission, used this as grounds for a breach of contract lawsuit against the BBC, who held the rights to series. The result was that all material produced by Pythons for the BBC became their intellectual property, which was unprecedented at the time.* The HBO broadcast of the ''{{Series/Extras}}'' Christmas special did this with some jokes, cutting or replacing references to British celebrities who aren't known in America. It was mild but still silly, because the show in general is still full of Britishisms that don't necessarily translate. It also makes a scene about talking celebrity dolls very jarring. The original one has a Jade Goody doll that says a catchphrase and then the racist remark she made about Shilpa Shetty's name on ''BigBrother''. The American version replaces it with a Kramer doll that does a ''{{Seinfeld}}'' quote followed by the part of Michael Richards's notorious onstage rant about the black members of his stand-up audience where he reminded the white people present them that in the past they could have lynched them -- which is less NeverLiveItDown and more DudeNotFunny.* Creator/TheBBC's ''Tales From Europe'' strand from TheSixties came about as a result of the children's department being unable to make its own programmes, and so began adapting films from the Continent and particularly Eastern Europe, most notably ''Series/TheSingingRingingTree'' from East Germany. Typically the films would be edited into several parts and shown as a serial, with a narrative track over the top instead of dubbing the original dialogue into English. [[/folder]]

[[folder:Music]]* When released in America, the albums of Music/TheBeatles would experience two different approaches: (a) either the album would be released with the same (or a similar) name as the British release (such as ''With The Beatles'' becoming ''Meet The Beatles'' -- kind of justified in this case, as the album was the first to be released in America), only with a few songs chopped off and / or rearranged, or (b) the songs would be grouped together to form a whole new album (such as ''Yesterday and Today'', the one which originally generated controversy over the infamous "[[BlackComedy butcher cover]]" involving the group wearing white butcher's coats and surrounded by slabs of meat and chopped-up dolls parts). British releases tend to be considered 'canon', although the American release of ''Magical Mystery Tour'' has replaced the original British EP in both popularity and official-ness due to it also including some of their most popular non-album singles of the time, including 'Strawberry Fields Forever', 'Penny Lane' and 'Hello Goodbye'.** This also extends to almost every British rock group from the start of the British invasion to around 1967 or so. It stemmed from two factors. First, records released in Europe usually had around fourteen songs on them, while American records usually had only twelve. Second, songs that were released as singles in England were usually not put on albums, meaning that many of any given band's most popular songs were not available on their regular studio albums. This caused America companies to mix and match songs and albums so they could exhaust their catalogue and make more money. Both The Rolling Stones' and The Yardbirds' American albums have become canon in the UK, though with the former that's only because ABKCO - an American company - owns the rights to the pre-1970 Stones catalogue.* TheClash's first album from 1977 was released in the US in 1979. This happened after their second, ''Give Em Enough Rope'' had been released in the US in 1978, which was the first album of theirs to be released there. Probably as a result, their newer singles from 1979 were included on the new version of their first album, replacing some songs that were deemed controversial by the record company at the time. Although a lot of people like this version of the album, the Clash's change in production techniques makes the inclusion of a later track like "I Fought The Law" pretty noticeable.* There's a self-titled album by German act Nena (of 99 Luftballons/99 Red Balloons fame) which features some of their songs translated into English and another side with some original German songs. The songs in either case seem to have been taken from two different original German albums (another self titled, debut album and ''? (Fragezeichen)''). * ABBA's first two albums Ring Ring and Waterloo have different tracklists outside Sweden. Ring Ring began with the Swedish version of the title track, and included the English version as Track 10. The German version (used for other export versions) moved the English song to track 1, and replaced the Swedish one with She's My Kind Of Girl, which had been the B Side to the English version in Sweden (it was actually a Bjorn and Benny solo track). Waterloo did the same thing with the title track to that album, and added (in the UK and US) a 1974 remix of Ring Ring to the end of the album. The Japanese release of their self-titled album moves SOS to track 1, and the non-Swedish release of The Album has a blue background on the cover, rather than a white one.* YellowMagicOrchestra got this too, but the solo work of Ryuichi Sakamoto even more so. It started with his album B-2 Unit which had the single Warhead added and Participation Mystique taken out on the UK version. Then the UK/US version of his album Left Handed Dream was largely different outside Japan (featuring his work with Robin Scott), as was his later Ongaku Zukan (Made into Illustrated Music Encyclopedia - a single LP featuring half the tracks, and the two singles Field Work and Steppin' Into Asia added). In the 90s, Sakamoto reworked his albums Beauty and Heartbeat for the international market to make them more marketable - some tracks were translated from Japanese into English, and Beauty gained the single You Do Me and the single remix of We Love You but lost Adagio, whereas Heartbeat gained two David Sylvian sung tracks Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) and Cloud #9 and lost the original Tainai Kaiki. Also, Heartbeat's unique foldout sleeve was not included on the International Version due to being too expensive to produce. Sakamoto went one further with Sweet Revenge, remixing and overdubbing the album noticeably and translating some of the songs into English and rearranging some others entirely, and cutting out two Japanese tracks. Sakamoto intended for this version of the album to be an alternative experience and it definitely is.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Puppet Shows]]* This happened to ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'' ''twice''. First when it was run on FOX Kids with redubbed voices, rock music, and cuts to remove content deemed inappropriate for children and also to cram the plots into half-hour episodes, rendering most of them incomprehensible. After that bombed, the rights holder released another half-hour version, ''[[TotallyRadical Turbocharged]] Thunderbirds'', which further altered the original episodes to be taking place on the planet "Thunder World", redubbed the dialog yet again to add more "post-modern" jokes, had the Tracy family taking orders from a pair of live-action teenagers who called Jeff Tracy "Mr. T", and referred to the teenagers as Hackers who lived aboard ''Thunderbird 5'', now dubbed "Hack Command". This version so enraged original creator Gerry Anderson that it was quickly pulled from syndication and supposedly destroyed at his request.** To give you an idea of how bad ''Turbocharged'' was, look up an episode on Website/YouTube. If that alone isn't enough to convince you, read the comments under the videos -- more than once, you'll see someone posting that this series made '''the 2004 live-action adaptation''' seem better by comparison. To give some perspective: Anderson called ''that'' one "the biggest load of crap [he'd] ever seen in [his] life".[[/folder]]

[[folder:Video Games]]* A positive example of this is ''DecapAttack'', where a previously so-so PlatformGame licensed from an obscure anime became one of the silliest, strangest and most bizarre games to hit the SegaGenesis.** ''Power Blade'' is a similar case: not only was Steve Treiber, the VideoGame/MegaMan-like player character of the original Japanese version, swapped out for an [[TheAhnold Ahnold-type]] dude named Nova, the game was made both more playable and more complex.* ''VideoGame/MegamanX5'' apparently had a ''huge'' Music/GunsNRoses fan on their translation team who thought it would be really funny or clever to rename the Mavericks after the band members. Saying it's ''painful'' would be an understatement. While it's true saying "Tidal Makkoeen" sounds weird in English, at least it doesn't make you cringe like saying "Duff [=McWhalen=]" does. Even the [[http://www.mmhp.net/GameHints/MMX5.html MegaMan Homepage]] utterly refuses to make any mention of the names, despite their policy to use whatever names appear in the game no matter what.-->"Although normally it is my policy to go by the game first if a game contradicts its manual, I’m hereby making an exception in this case. I’m sorry, but I am ''not'' referencing the Mavericks by their Guns N’ Roses names."* Back in the early days of Creator/{{Atlus}}, they localised the cult hit ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei: VideoGame/{{Persona}}'' as ''Revelations: Persona'' by scrubbing the script of any Japanese references, redrawing the characters [[RaceLift with different skin tones]] (including making one into a [[JiveTurkey jive-talking]] [[TokenMinority black sidekick]]), and trying (inconsistently) to relocate the setting from Japan to a strange America full of [[ShrinesAndTemples Japanese landmarks]]. This gets confusing in ''Persona 2: Eternal Punishment'' when several characters from the first game make an appearance, retaining their American names (for continuity purposes) but looking a bit different (the hero in Persona had an earring in the Japanese version and looked Angstier, and when did Ellen dye her hair black?!). They also removed an entire ten-hour BonusDungeon for reasons unknown, though as part of it is translated, it's likely this was simply cut to speed up the localization process.** Atlus tried to make up for their blunders in the first game [[AuthorsSavingThrow to some extent]] by [[spoiler: pretending Nate/Kei never got a last name change, Guido Sardenia was an alias (as they couldn't rename him Takihisa due to the spoken cutscenes calling him Guido), so they broke even and established his original name was Guido Kandori, as well as few other minor changes to compensate.]] It's still a much messier {{Retcon}} that Nyarlathotep was manipulating things from the beginning, as his name was changed to Massacre for the US release.** The real strange part is that Atlus today is one of the most respected publishers in the West for its studious attention to detail and its respect for the titles it brings out. Obviously they learned their lesson, as the US release of ''Persona 2: Eternal Punishment'' made no attempt to hide the fact that the game was in Japan, and recently the PSP remake was released in the US, ''with better translation'' and the entire game translated.* In Japan, ''VideoGame/AceCombat3Electrosphere'' was a fast-paced flight arcade game with highly competent teammates, a deeply involving, character-driven, completely non-linear storyline, featuring five young pilots caught in the middle of a struggle between two megacorporations, a guerrilla faction hell-bent on digitalizing everybody's minds, and a secret peacekeeping force where some dark monkey business is going on deep inside; all of that interspersed with beautiful, sleek anime cutscenes by Creator/ProductionIG. However, as the next console generation was fast-approaching, and that the Japanese release had underperformed relative to its lavish production values, the western localization cut most of the game's selling points. The truly intelligent teammates were removed, making almost all your missions solo. The original plot was replaced with a bland, highly generic story about a peacekeeping force who just jumps in and ruins enemy stuff every time something bad happens, without adequately explaining why the bad guys suddenly became good guys and vice-versa about halfway through. The anime cutscenes were replaced with text slideshows that just threw an {{infodump}} on what was going on once every ten missions or so. The entire "story tree" was replaced with a completely linear plot that just goes from point A to point B (the only saving grace is that they did their best to grab the better missions from every path to throw into the localized version, like the famous "Zero Gravity"). Even Dision's quest for causing massive mayhem was {{retcon}}ned into being [[AIIsACrapshoot a computer AI that suddenly went haywire for no reason]]. * XS Games bought the rights to two unrelated BulletHell shooters, ''Gunbird'' and ''VideoGame/CastleOfShikigami'', and released them as ''Mobile Light Force'' 1 and 2, respectively. The original Japanese scripts were tossed out completely and replaced with an English script that made no sense, and the games were released with a [[AngelsPose Charlie's Angels-style cover]] that had [[CoversAlwaysLie absolutely nothing to do with either game]]. After great anguish from fans, XS Games brought over ''Castle of Shikigami 2'' uncut, though the translation was still filled with {{Engrish}}. The third game was brought over by a different publisher, Aksys Games.* Then there's the first ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' game, which was edited into ''Street Combat'', changing the premise and removing all Japanese elements and renaming and redrawing all the characters completely differently.* ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'' had almost all plot points pointing to incest removed, and everything related to pedophilia removed. Some other parts of the script were also gummed up and rendered incoherent, such as the scene leading in to the third ending.* Several ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' games got this treatment, being reworked into games starring [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Dr. Robotnik]] on the Genesis/Megadrive or VideoGame/{{Kirby}} on the SNES, as well as a computer game (''Qwirks'') with completely original characters. The ''Puyo Puyo'' franchise still lives on to this day under its original title, even after the demise of Compile, the company who created the series.** A similar thing happened to the ''Panel de Pon'' series, released in Japan with cute shoujo-style characters. It was released in the US, with characters from ''Yoshi's Island'', as ''Tetris Attack'', even though the games don't have anything to do with Tetris.** Perhaps the most well-known act of cramming mascots into ported oddities is the US version of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', which is a sprite hack (with other changes/improvements) of ''Doki Doki Panic''. The proper Mario 2 epitomized NintendoHard -- it eventually reached the US after being RemadeForTheExport on the ''Super Mario All-Stars'' CompilationRerelease for the SNES as "''The Lost Levels''," though the original 8-bit version was eventually released on the Wii and 3DS VirtualConsole.*** On the plus side, either due to Miyamoto's involvement with the original ''Doki Doki Panic'' or the fact the title was later released in Japan, many of the monsters from ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' [[CanonImmigrant have joined]] Mario's RoguesGallery. Bob-ombs were in the immediately following game, ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3''. ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' featured Shy Guys, and most Mario games since then have featured at least a few enemies who originated in Subcon. Furthermore, in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Melee'' and ''Brawl'', Princess Peach has a few abilities based on her appearance in ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' namely her ability to throw vegetables and hover in midair.*** ''2'' can best be summed up as a game that got a cut and paste translation, but ended up better than the actual sequel and Nintendo made it canon.* The translators of ''VideoGame/EarnestEvans'' moved the year from 1925 to 1985, made Earnest Evans into Earnest Evans III, tore out the entire story, made Annet his mom instead of his girlfriend, and changed Al Capone into Brady Tressider. Of course, the game was reverse-ported from the SegaCD to the SegaGenesis cartridge, so a ''lot'' had to go.* ''Probotector'' for the MegaDrive, the European localization of ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}: Hard Corps'' not only replaced all of the humanoid characters with robots (much like the previous ''Probotector'' games for the Nintendo platforms), it also turned the plot of the game into a barely coherent mess, by replacing references to the enemy being an Earth-based terrorist organization with some nonsense about "Alien Rebels", as well as downplaying the role of Dr. Geo Mandrake so he was no longer a traitor.* For the American version of ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage 3'', the main characters were recolored for the purpose of having "gender-neutral" colors, female enemies have more clothing, and the story is completely rewritten, changing the plot from one revolving around nuclear weapons to one about robotic duplicates of city officials.* There's a lot of InternetBackdraft related to WorkingDesigns about whether or not their scripts fall under this or {{Woolseyism}}s. They were notorious for slipping in an ungodly amount of pop culture references, as well as playing fast and loose with the dialogue in the games, which made keeping track of changes in the various ''VideoGame/{{Lunar}}'' ports difficult just because the player never knew whether a change was added for the new version or just added to the English version. On the other hand, this notoriety is also what made their games appealing. The Clinton joke in the original ''Lunar: Eternal Blue'' is legendary, to the point where many mourned its loss when the PS1 version came out and they had updated it to something more relevant.* While otherwise a decent game, the poor translation effort put forth in ''Warsong'', the Genesis version of ''VideoGame/{{Langrisser}}'', is said to have contributed to its low sales and the prevention of any other game in the series being released outside Japan.* Nintendo of America's [[http://www.filibustercartoons.com/Nintendo.php self-imposed decency guidelines]] scrubbed almost all references to religion, Nazis, sex, and gratuitous violence from the NES & SNES.** If you didn't beat it, you probably didn't know ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'' was about stickin' it to Hitler.** ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' took a number of edits, but more notably so did its Japan-only NES predecessor ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER|1}}'' (AKA ''Earthbound Zero''). Since the US port team fixed bugs and added features as they meddled, that officially unreleased translation / edit was used in ''Mother 1+2'' for the GBA.** Oddly averted in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'', which features an apparently unaltered church complete with pastor and gigantic gold cross.** Nintendo apparently gave themselves a free pass on the first two ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' games, which are loaded with crosses and even a church (explicitly identified as such) in both Japanese ''and'' English. Then they backpedaled with ''Link to the Past'', changing a church into a "sanctuary" and a priest into a "sage" (though without altering any visual imagery). They also edited out graphics based on Egyptian hieroglyphs, citing that they were a religious reference--[[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad a reference to a religion that hardly anyone has practiced for thousands of years.]]* Germany is infamous for its game edits. [[NoSwastikas Nazi symbolism is verboten]], so games like ''VideoGame/{{Bloodrayne}}'' (set in Nazi Germany) get set in {{Ruritania}}s with [[BlandNameProduct we-swear-they're-not-swastikas]] everywhere.** "They're just machines" is common there, too. The back page of the official guide to the N64's ''Turok: Dinosaur Hunter'' touted the PAL-version replacement of all the human mooks with robot soldiers as a feature.** One of the worst examples is the removal of Nimdok and his section in the PC game ''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream''. What makes this seriously stupid is that ''[[IdiotProgramming the game wasn't changed to not require his section to be completed to beat the game]]'', making the game {{Unwinnable}}.** This German requirement has led to the ''international'' versions of many strategy games set in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII using the imperial German flag and symbols instead of the Nazi ones, and replacing Hitler with a fictional character. This of course leads to UnfortunateImplications as it can appear to be historical revisionism and claiming the Nazis never existed.* The German releases of ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' changed ''everyone'' in the whole ''series'' into robots, but ''Generals'' was by far the worst in this regard:** Every face was cyborgified.** All voice samples were modified to make them sound more like robots.** Blood was changed to green.** The GLA suicide bomber was replaced by ''a bomb with wheels'', which inexplicably starts talking once you put it into a car. Oops.** All this was parodied by ''Script/AHDotComTheSeries'', whose German mercenaries have a small army of "Cyborg Robots With Green Blood" who they called upon when required to fight for civilisations so squeamish they faint at the sight of real humans fighting.* While we're talking about German versions, the German version of ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' not only changes all enemy soldiers to robots but also removed all blood and gore and made it so that instead of dying when shot, the science team would just calmly sit down while shaking their heads in disappointment before fading away.* Speaking of which, the ''Team Fortress'' series has also seen a large amount of editing in Germany:** In ''VideoGame/TeamFortressClassic'', all of the class models were replaced with a generic robot model, which made the game impossible to play.** In ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', the class models remain the same, but blood is replaced with oil, and it uses the "Silly gibs" that Pyroland uses in the English versions (for those unaware, "Silly gibs" makes the players explode into toys, mechanical parts, food, and other inanimate objects, rather than exploding into limbs and organs). Also, all the ''Meet the Team'' shorts that made it over there were heavily censored/edited (except ''Meet the Sniper'', which [[TheyJustDidntCare they didn't even bother to censor]]). For example, in ''Meet the Soldier'', Soldier's collection of severed heads have oil oozing out of them, and their neckbones are replaced with mechanical springs, so it's almost as if the classes are robots due to the way the game and its shorts are edited. However, they eventually stopped censoring newly-released content without decensoring existing content, most apparent in some weapons having their bloodstains removed, while others still have them.* ''VideoGame/DynamiteHeaddy'' removed ''all'' dialogue except for the tutorial segments and the end of Scene 4 from the US version of the game. What was once an intentionally silly but coherent plot becomes an incomprehensible mess that's barely discernable past random action sequences because of this.** In the original Japanese version, if you enter the tutorial segments, you'd be asked if you want to practice, which is nice if you have second thoughts about doing it. In the US version, once you enter the room, there's no turning back. And you don't get any dialogue if you fail these attempts. At least they had the sense to change the ending in light of the dialogue removal: in the US version, Smiley rejoices upon seeing Heather, who turns to Headdy and {{glomp}}s him. During the ending demo, Headdy sees Heather off with the rest of his friends. In the Japanese version, Smily pins himself to Headdy's face as Fingy looks on. In the ending demo, only Headdy's friends see Fingy off, as Headdy struggles to get Smily off his face.* The European and American versions of ''VideoGame/MagicalDrop III'' removed a lot of things present in the Japanese version. The endless mode no longer has KyuAndDanRanks, characters now use generic "I'm gonna beat you!"-style dialogue before each versus matchup, plot-related cutscenes have been removed, and characters no longer have individual voices--there's about three in the whole game (''one'' in the American version), with each voice being shared by multiple characters.* How about ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD Sonic CD]]''? Sega of America delayed the US release by several months for the purpose of replacing 75% of the soundtrack, most likely due to {{sampling}} issues as the Japanese sound track used a lot of 'em (Prime example if you don't believe that: Listen to the Japanese boss theme and then to "Work That Sucker To Death" by Xavier.). Even Spencer Nielsen, the composer working on behalf of Sega of America, sympathized with irate fans.** Though [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome the resulting soundtrack earned many, many fans.]]** In addition to the change of soundtrack, Amy Rose was arbitrarily renamed "Princess Sally" in a weak attempt at appealing to the [[WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM ABC cartoon's]] fanbase. Never mind the fact that Amy is a pink hedgehog, and Sally is a redhead squirrel.* The ''VideoGame/{{Twinbee}}'' platformer spinoff ''Rainbow Bell Adventure'' was released in both Japan and Europe. The Japanese version featured an overworld map with many, many optional stages and potential paths to the end, and multiple endings depending on how much of the game you actually cleared before taking on the final boss. The European version stripped out all but one of the endings and made the game completely linear.* In ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', the legendary sword Granleon was renamed Masamune in the English translation. Although this doesn't seem like a very bad change (after all, [[StockWeaponNames Masamune is a pretty cool name]] and shows up as the name of a powerful sword in most Squaresoft games), but it does cause some problems.** In most Squaresoft games, the Masamune is either a katana or a sword that looks like a katana. However, the Masamune in ''Chrono Trigger'' is definitely '''not''' a katana. There are plenty of katanas in the game but the Masamune is not one of them.** The Masamune contains two brothers named Masa and Mune (or Gran and Leon in Japanese) who are {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s [[spoiler: of the swordsmith Melchior's hopes and dreams]]. Later on, you find out they have a sister named Doreen (Dream in Japan). By going to [[GuideDangIt the right place, at the right time, with the right lead character]], you can obtain an accessory that allows you to perform a [[CombinationAttack Triple Tech]] that summons Masa and Mune... as well as their sister! The name of this attack is [=GrandDream=] since Doreen is helping her brothers with the attack (Gran + Dream instead of Gran + Leon). Unfortunately, when the Granleon is named the Masamune and Gran's name is Masa, the name of the tech sounds cool, but loses its meaning.** Since the Granleon is still called the Masamune in ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'', it causes problems there too. After you [[spoiler:defeat a BonusBoss who is being controlled by the now evil Masamune, Doreen shows up, and scolds her brothers. Then all three of them combine their powers to change the Masamune from a sword into a swallow (Serge's weapon type).]] In Japan, this weapon was called Grand Dream, once again signifying that the brothers are being joined by Doreen and also giving a nice shout out to a fairly obscure ability from the first game. In America, this weapon gets the cheese-tastic name Mastermune.** The [[VideoGameRemake DS remake]] of ''Chrono Trigger'' attempts to correct the Grand Dream attack issue. Unfortunately, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint it does so by renaming it Mastermune]], which repairs the ShoutOut in ''Chrono Cross'' but still sounds incredibly cheesy.* In the American release of ''VideoGame/UmJammerLammy'', a level taking place in Hell was relocated to a desert island for fear of offending religious types. The European versions got to stay in Hell, though.** Some lyrics were also changed, and not just obvious ones like Chop Chop Master Onion singing about "playing on an island" rather than "playing in hell". Teriyaki Yoko's song changes mentions of "the devil" to "a man", and Paul Chuck no longer "chops down trees just for fun", apparently for fear of offending environmentalists!* Pretty much any instruction manual written by Konami of America's localization staff during the NES era and most of the SNES era, which usually changed the plots of the games and renamed all the enemy characters with {{pun}}s. The changes usually never affected the games themselves, as many games at the time were lacking in-game dialogue at the time and when they did, Konami would often forget to actually change the plot of the game, leading to various game to manual discrepancies.** The most infamous example would be the NES version of ''VideoGame/MetalGear''. The plot within the game itself was mostly kept unchanged, but the manual identified the antagonist as a "[=Colonel Vermon CaTaffy=]", a clear pastiche of Libyan socialist leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. It's obvious that the writer of the manual never actually finished the game.** ''VideoGame/SnakesRevenge'', the NES sequel to ''Metal Gear'', is an ever odder case. The game was released only in America and Europe, so the English manual has no Japanese version to be compared with. Even then it still manages to be inconsistent with the game itself, as the manual identifies the villain as a middle east dictator named "Higharolla Kockmamia", another pastiche (this time of Ayatollah Khomeini; at least not Hideo Kojima), but the actual bad guy is revealed to be a cyborg version of Big Boss in the actual game. Additionally, the manual claims that Jennifer "X" (Snake's female contact within the enemy base) is "rumored to be related to Ginger from ''Series/GilligansIsland''".** When the first Game Boy ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}'' game was translated in America, the plot of the game was changed from a "Aliens are attacking us!"-style blurb to ridiculous crap about chasing down a criminal called "King Nemesis". While the ''Gradius'' series was never plot-heavy in the first place, the manual of this game [[http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=3544&highlight=king+nemesis has to be seen to be believed]].*** In the SNES conversion of ''Gradius III'', "bosses" became "Mayors", and several bosses got renamed[[note]]click notes for original names[[/note]]: [=QB2B=], Monarch[[note]]Crystal Core[[/note]], Ice Ice[[note]]Big Core mkII[[/note]], Grim[[note]]Derringer Core[[/note]], among others. Worst of all, the Vic Viper gets renamed to the "M.A.X."*** The American manual for ''Life Force'' identifies the planet-devouring being of Zelos as the child of a "Ma & Pa Deltoid", as well as switching the names of Intruder (the dragon) and Cruiser Tetran (the core ship with the four tentacles).** [[BadExportForYou In addition to having the cut-scenes actually removed from the first NES game]], the manuals of the early ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'' games actually changed the plot for each game as well, placing them in the present instead of the future. The manual for the original ''Contra'', which was actually set in the fictional Galuga islands near New Zealand, sets the game in South America instead, while the manual of ''Operation C'', which was originally about Bill Rizer fighting against an unknown superpower in the Japanese version, was changed by identifying the antagonist as another alien invader named Black Viper. While ''Contra III'' kept the futuristic setting of the game, it changed the identities of the main characters from Bill and Lance into their descendants, "Jimbo" and "Sully". The enemy characters were also given sillier names such as "Jagger Froid" and the "[[ILoveLucy Babalu]] Destructoid Mechanism". Oddly enough, the manuals for the European ''Probotector'' games had more accurate translations, changing the text only to take into account that the main characters were robots.** The manual for [[VideoGame/GanbareGoemon Legend Of The Mystical Ninja]] is a bit of an odd duck. One on the hand it makes up a story about something called "the Dragonbeast", which has nothing to do with the game. On the other hand, the humorous tone of the manual is in-line with the game itself.* The Super NES port of ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'' was given the NoSwastikas treatment, and the BigBad was changed from Hitler to "Staatmeister".** A longstanding rumor claims that the creators of Wolfenstein were so offended by this, that they actually gave the game source code to Wisdom Tree, a company that produced Christian video games, who in turn made Super 3D Noah's Ark, the most notable unlicensed SNES game in existence (there are more unlicensed SNES titles produced in Asia, actually). While not believed to be true - it's more likely that Wisdom Tree was a normal code licensee - the id software staff ''did'' seem to know that the game was going to be an unlicensed release, and were apparently okay with that, at the least.* The MMORPG Digimon Battle's text was pretty much translated using Google Translator. The website's just as bad.* Much to the ire of long-time fans of the series, ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}} 3'' was brought heavily under the cutting knife in an effort to excise elements that "would not resonate with Western audiences." This includes the removal of a string of quests involving the management of a hostess bar, elimination of such alarmingly Japanese games as shogi and mahjong, and the tossing aside of massage parlors, a number of optional missions, and a rather deep trivia game.* When ''VideoGame/MagicalDoropie'' was translated as ''The Krion Conquest'', the story stopped at the intro, beyond which all cutscenes were removed and the ending became AWinnerIsYou. This only made the game look even more like a ripoff of ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' than it already was.* The SegaMasterSystem game ''Pro Wrestling'' (unrelated to the NES game) was a port of an arcade game which featured Dump Matsumoto and {{Captain Ersatz}}es of her [[Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling AJW]] rivals. The entire cast was replaced with male wrestlers for the American and European releases.* When ''Ninja Cop Saizou'' was localized as ''Wrath of the Black Manta'', the story scenes were almost entirely rewritten and redrawn, one stage was removed, a few bosses were altered, and the music was completely replaced.* The Western localization of ''VideoGame/{{Gungriffon}}'' completely rewrote the plot of the game. The original Japanese script is set in 2015 and cast the player as a Japanese pilot of the Asian Pacific Community fighting in a world war against the Pan European Union. The English script moved the game to 2075 and instead had the player be a pilot of the U.S's 45th Foreign Legion assisting Russian forces in beating back an invasion by the APC. The opening FMV was edited to remove German voice clips (as their role as enemies were reversed by the plot changes), although the briefing illustrations and radio chatter in the missions were left unaltered.* The English-language version of ''VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestival'' [[http://www.nerdspan.com/english-love-live-school-idol-festival-removes-homosexual-references/ strips out]] a lot of ShipTease between the [[SchoolgirlLesbians exclusively-female]] cast. Additionally, many lines that imply that the player character is female were changed to treat the player as male instead. [[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Animation]]* Parodied in this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmc6TRPQnYU&feature=relmfu "4kids version"]] of ''NekoSugarGirls''.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Video]]* ''WebVideo/NinjaTheMissionForce'' is basically a parody of the Film/GodfreyHoNinjaMovies, using much the same technique but on apparently public-domain Western [[BMovie B-movies]]. Which, with it being a parody are of course [[GagDub Gag Dubs]], PlayedForLaughs. [[/folder]]

[[folder:Western Animation]]* Probably one of the best examples of this trope being successful is the British version of ''TheMagicRoundabout'', in which Eric Thompson ignored the original French scripts and wrote new ones based solely on the visuals, leading to the cult series that is known and loved today.** Doubtless puzzling Francophones who know only the forgettable original.* The Polish version of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. Oh Lord. Professor Farnsworth is Fry's ''uncle'' in some episodes, most of the references are happily butchered, and the show is called ''Przygody Fry'a w kosmosie'', that is "''Fry's Adventures in Space''". Not only that, but the TV station that picked it up was fined for showing the episodes at the time when children could see it. It allegedly showed "an unreal world full of violence".* From what Gaelic speakers have said, the Gaelic translation of ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse''. For a start, in order to justify his BroughtToYouByTheLetterS ChestInsignia, they gave him the rather uninspiring name of "Donnie Murdo".** In the same fashion, the italian dub of ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'' named the title character "Ughetto".* The ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' cartoon series managed to avert this in a major way (even with all the {{Fanservice}}). The "Subdigitals" CD release was not so lucky...* The Japanese dub of ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' transformed it into a goofy comedy show with many characters' personalities becoming completely altered. [[http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Beast_Wars_(cartoon)#Japanese_version Examples can be found]] on the [[Wiki/TFWikiDotNet Transformers Wiki]].** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' and ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' also suffered similar translations when translated into Japanese. Of the two, ''Prime'' was hit the hardest-- Airachnid was changed from an AxCrazy psychopath to a shrill girly-girl who was in love with Jack, the Insecticons were all given comedic, ill-fitting voices, and most damningly of all, the ''entire third season was cut'', due to an enforced 52-episode limit given by the network. The season 2 finale, "Darkest Hour", had the last several minutes hacked off (including its CliffHanger ending) in order to convert it into a series finale. The "Beast Hunters" season was replaced by a series of Japan-original direct-to-DVD shorts collectively entitled ''Anime/TransformersGo'', which have very little to do with the main plot of ''Prime''. * ''WesternAnimation/{{Tugs}}'', when it was brought to the US as part of ''Salty's Lighthouse'' in the '90s. The original 15-20 minute episodes were edited down to new, 5-minute shorts that were LighterAndSofter compared to the often dark and mature plotlines of ''Tugs''. The more consistent changes included renaming "OJ" and "Big Mac" to "Otis" and "Big Stack", and [[ShesAManInJapan gender swaps]] for Captain Star and Sunshine. There wasn't much footage to work with, since the original show only had 13 episodes, and as a result, footage was repeated and continuity errors popped up.* The Japanese dub of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', although not otherwise terrible, cuts several scenes and lines present in all other dubs of the show (to make room for the extended opening/ending and advertisements, apparently), resulting in a few {{Dub Induced Plot Hole}}s.* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' got hit hard by this in Germany. The station ZDF felt it should treat it like "stuff for idiot kids", which is little wonder considering how they treated TOS. Numerous missing episodes, the remaining episodes hacked to half the runtime and a horrible dub that made the show into a complete mockery (and didn't even use the dub voices from TOS). When Paramount got wind of that in 1994 when they wanted to release the series on VHS, they did a completely new dub, which not only used the correct dub voices, but also is very faithful to the original and uncut. This new dub was also released on DVD.[[/folder]]----